AMES, Iowa - A ruling that found Iowa State University administrators improperly removed a men's basketball player from the team for alleged sexual misconduct will stand, an appeals court ruled Thursday.

HUNTINGTON, West Virginia - When Marshall athletic director Mike Hamrick first returned to the university in that job, the former Thundering Herd linebacker asked where student-athletes went for tutoring, computer labs and academic advising. He didn't like what he saw.